Family Spotlight:
Heather and Staci
Here's a picture of my partner and myself plus our three-year-old triplets at our commitment ceremony in September 2003. We have been together for fourteen years. Staci, my partner, adopted the triplets that I birthed.
Our family has been affected in all the typical ways that a
GLBT family is affected by not being able to marry: we carry extra life
insurance, we have an extra health insurance policy (we have a "family
policy" and a single policy), etc. With the addition of our children,
these things become even more important. We are both self-employed (I
am an attorney and Staci is a CPA) and these extra financial hardships
mean that we spend money on things that married couples do not at the
expense of our children and their college education funds.
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